When a new power is just rising, it is absolutely the moment when the desire for expansion is the strongest, because every head of such a force must have great ambitions, and there will be many virtuous ministers and good generals under his hands.

With the corresponding ambition and strength, why not expand aggressively? This is also one of the reasons why the founding emperor of each dynasty can always lead his troops to swallow thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, and the first generation is difficult to expand the land to the second generation, as many generals grow old or converge, it is difficult for the successor to expand the territory.

There is no doubt that Lu Zhe set the direction of expanding his territory in the south, and the first to be unlucky were the Baiyue tribes, and now he is eyeing Lingnan, what about after taking Lingnan? Isn't it the turn of the more southern regions!

Kaimingpan himself was not a founding king, but in his hands the territory of Ou Yu was expanded, and many tribes were subdued. As a king who has been expanding his country (family) for decades, he is well aware of the ambitions of a new power, and his desire for land will be unlimited.

In the face of a new force such as Lu Zhe, which has risen rapidly in a short period of time, Kaimingpan believes that only by giving an unforgettable lesson when the enemy does not notice or value him, he can use this method to stop the expansion of the force. At the same time, because both sides are not familiar with each other, they must not wait for the enemy army to advance to their own country.

"It's better to fight a war on someone else's land than on home soil." Kai Mingpan said again in a low voice.

Wise! If there is war, there will inevitably be destruction, and if the battlefield is set up within the territory of non-one's own country, then the loss is also someone else's property, and it is really rare for Enlightened Pan to understand this truth.

Gao Tong nodded again and again, but he thought that the rhythm of the war might be able to change, and said: "It is obvious that Lu Zhe's army has begun to divide its troops, and it is not so light in the jungle-rich environment of Lingnan......"

No matter how difficult it is to take a detour, but a detour is always a detour, once Lu Zhejun's military intentions are achieved. They will never have any good fruit to eat.

Including the Ouluo Kingdom, the total number of armed forces fighting with Lu Zhe's army in Lingnan was only 110,000, and a considerable part of them were still in the Stone Age tribes, and the 30,000 troops of the Ouluo Kingdom and the elites concentrated in some tribes were less than 60,000 people with metal weapons.

To be honest, a hard shock is absolutely not possible, all they can do is to avoid the outbreak of the battle of the large corps. According to the calculation of time, the commander of Lu Zhe's army has been reinforced in small units for six consecutive days, and the intention is obviously to let the men and horses on the west bank who have crossed the water act as bait, and buy time for the other Lu Zhe's army to make a roundabout, so the longer the time drags on, the closer it is to the completion of the roundabout force of Lu Zhe's army.

"It's a little more dangerous to stay longer. Your Majesty! Gao Tong said.

"You don't understand," Kai Mingpan's tone suddenly became a little unpredictable, "those savages...... Chiefs, they have already killed the red eyes, the enemy forces in the West Bank will never withdraw without annihilation, and now for them, any sanity is weakness and retreat. The tone gradually turned tough: "We must win the hearts of all ethnic groups in Lingnan, and the necessary sacrifices are inevitable!" In addition, in order to make the Lingnan ethnic groups contribute to the death in the future war. The casualties here are heavy, and the stronger their hatred for Lu Shizhe becomes, which is conducive to the war that we may break out with Lu Shizhe in the future! ”

Different statuses lead to different directions of thinking. Gaotong thinks from the perspective of a courtier, but Enlightened Pan thinks about the overall situation.

Although it is not 100% certain, Kaimingpan has foreseen that the south (not referring to the territory of China) will definitely be enveloped by war in the future, and it depends on how much Lu Zhe's appetite is. In addition, will there be any changes in the Central Plains?

Kaiming Pan is not one of those uneducated chieftains of Baiyue, he is the prince of the ancient Shu kingdom and the current king of the Ouyu kingdom, and he knows very well that any form of government in the Chinese system has always had amazing ambitions for the land. Lu Zhe didn't know the wealth (referring to resources) of Lingnan and the location further south before, but he saw the determination to send 200,000 troops to invade the south during the civil strife in the Central Plains, which was clear that the south was not a wild place, and there was unimaginable wealth!

Can the south, where its wealth has been exposed, hope for continued peace? Yes! That is, there was a big war involving Lu Zhe in China itself, so that Lu Zhe did not have extra troops to continue to invade the south. But there is a premise for this, that is, the south has caused unexpected losses to Lu Zhe's army, otherwise under the premise that he can obtain territory without any difficulty, how can Lu Zhe be willing to give up?

"The art of war lies in the use of strength," Kaimingpan showed the wisdom of an entrepreneurial monarch, his hands were clenched into fists like chicken claws: "If you want to keep the enemy out, you can only use tactics to make the civil war in the Central Plains affect Lu Shizhe, and the other is to show the strength that makes Lu Shizhe hesitate." ”

It's a joke, one of the strongest armies in South Asia, the Ou Yu State soldiers, lost two to kill a Lu Zhejun, which is still against the army that has been gradually demoralized and extremely fatigued, and it is difficult to use such a combat force to teach Lu Zhejun an unforgettable lesson...... It's very hard.

Gao Tong looked at the inexplicable fanatical monarch, but he could only sigh in his heart and could not wave the cold water, he knew too well that what Enlightened Pan missed day and night was to return to Shu, so he encouraged the new ethnic group Qiang people to invade Shu County, and also spent a lot of money to bewitch the leader of Guiyue to intervene, as a result, when Baiyue invaded north, the three major tribal alliances of Ouyue, Minyue, and Nanyue all went, and Guiyue, the ethnic group whose population was not lost to the three major tribal alliances, did not go.

Fortunately, Gui Yue did not invade the north, otherwise it is estimated that he will be wiped out in the fate of Changsha County, after all, what Baiyue people are good at is not a siege of the city, let alone a large-scale battle, it should be a sneak attack and intrusion.

"It won't be so fast, and under the continuous rainy season, a large army of men and horses will make a detour rather than one or two people risking through the jungle. The march of the army needs to open up roads, in addition to ensuring the necessary logistical supply lines, but also to create convenience for future military operations. In this way, if Lu Zhejun wants to avoid our eyes and take a detour, the range will definitely not be within twenty miles of the battlefield......" Kai Mingpan looked confident, and snorted twice before continuing: "Fifteen days, no matter how fast they are, the period of detour will not be less than fifteen days, and today the enemy army has no reinforcements to cross the river to reinforce, it must be that something has delayed them internally." Originally, it was supposed to delay for another day or two to see the situation and then annihilate with all their might, but those savages (leaders) were in a hurry, so let's go ahead! ”

Gao Tong hurriedly asked: "Then our army is also engaged in a general attack?" ”

Kai Mingpan waved his hand, and his eyes slowly closed, obviously tired and didn't want to speak again.

"After several days of continuous fighting, the scope of the battlefield is three miles away, and the river beach is flooded except for the positions that the enemy has consolidated, and I am afraid that it will not be able to accommodate more than 30,000 troops to attack at one time," Gao Tong said cautiously: "The vanguard troops are mainly Lingnan savages, and they can still make up about 20,000 people." Should a desperate attack be able to tear through one or two lines of enemy defense, and our army will enter the battlefield while the third line of defense is engaged? ”

Kaimingpan was still waving his hand, and he didn't open his eyes.

Lu Zhe is not an immortal, and the generals at all levels of the Southern Army are not immortals, of course they don't know that there is such a well-armed enemy army hidden in the forest, and they are ready to use the corpse mountain and blood sea of various ethnic groups in Lingnan to open the passage for attack, and then give a ruthless blow to the troops who cross the west bank of the water.

Lu Zhejun, who was on the west bank of the water, once again bankrupted the attack of the various ethnic groups in Lingnan under the premise that Zhou Dang did not make a big mistake, but Zhou Dang was only a military marquis, and the knowledge he knew was the tactics of the military marquis, which was far from being comparable to Tang Jie, who had been trained as a captain, so the price of resisting the attack was higher.

After about two hours of fighting, Lu Zhe's army on the west bank, which originally had more than 3,000 combat strength left, suffered nearly 300 casualties and suffered more than 1,000 minor and serious injuries.

At the end of the battle, the soldiers of Lu Zhejun cleaned the bodies of the war dead with fatigue, and from time to time they would look at the camp of their own army on the east bank, and there was a trace of hesitation in everyone's eyes except for the hope of reinforcements.

Counting today's battle damage, nearly 7,000 robes have fallen in this small battle site on the West Bank, and the space where the remains of colleagues are parked in the camp is almost occupied, and a large number of wounded people occupy a large area.

This was the most passive battle that Lu Zhejun had fought since its establishment, because the morale of the passive and large number of casualties naturally could not be high. If it weren't for the fact that there was no way to retreat, the harsh military law would have collapsed unstoppably when the casualties of the first school were close to 30%, not to mention that they were a thousand people and a thousand people who temporarily crossed the river to reinforce, and they were not the robes of the same school, and the earliest school (5,000 people) was intact I don't know if there were 500 people.

"Junhou, the number of people who can continue to fight has dropped to less than fifteen hundred, and the wounded in the battalion are also facing the dilemma of lack of property, we ......" The expression on the face of the new duty officer was iron-blue, he was the third commander, named Chen Shao.

Because he was the third commander, he knew much more than ordinary generals and soldiers, and a lieutenant Tang Jie, who was one of the twenty-eight people who was personally knighted by the lord, was poisoned and fell into a coma, and their situation became more and more difficult because of the lack of reinforcements sent from the other side, and they really didn't know if they could survive the next enemy attack.

Zhou Dang's face was not much better, in the past, there was a tall man who resisted it and didn't feel anything, Tang Jie fell into a coma, and all the burdens were on his shoulders, it was so heavy that it was difficult to even breathe.

"The main general has already sent a military order, tomorrow (the time when the first ray of sunshine appears in Lingnan) there will be a school robe to cover, the sick and wounded in the army will withdraw first, and the rest of the robe will be used as the second sequence......" Zhou Dang did not feel relieved at all: "Surrounded by enemy troops, cross the river and withdraw the army, I, we ......"

There are some words that can't be said even if they understand, and what Zhou Dare wants to say is that they may face a more difficult situation than they imagined. (To be continued......)